Russian Course 402 (Level 14)

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Conducted almost entirely in simple Russian, this course includes discussion on art, writers and poets, opera and popular music and develops language structures to express opinion, indifference, agreement and disagreement. Grammatical structures acquired will be deepened and vocabulary extended.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

Talk about art, from classical to modern.

Talk about their everyday dealings, holidays, recent events and what is happening in their life.

Express their opinion and present arguments to defend their point of view.

Discuss Russian writers and their works.

Talk about music and their preferences in music.

Use colloquial expressions and modern slang.

Read authentic Russian material, such as newspapers and books, and understand the gist of it.

Understand Russian TV and radio programs, to a certain extent.

Use all cases, tenses and aspects of verbs to understand Russian speakers and be understood by them.

Content

This course covers the following topics:

Your taste in art – discussing artists and their paintings

Expressing opinions, indifference, agreement and disagreement

Accusative case of animate nouns and adjectives

Dative case + an adverb + an infinitive + accusative case

Mikhail Bulgakov’s novels and their screen adaptation: Dog’s Heart

Prepositional case with ‘in’ and 'about'

From Fyodor Dostoevsky to Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Classical art and the avant-garde

Verbs: to begin, to end + the infinitive

A World of Music – A World Without Words

Opera and popular music – Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Khvorostovsky

Igor Stravinsky

Grammatical case review

The art of socialist realism

Modern art – Ilya Glazunov

Intended Audience

Suitable for continuing B1 level students, those who have completed Russian 401 or who have completed 320 hours of recent face-to-face tuition.

Delivery

This course is delivered as a series of interactive workshops and active participation is encouraged. Our tutors use communicative method, and students will practice conversation in pairs or small groups.

A typical lesson includes engaging activities, such as games, presentations, simple readings, audio and video presentations, and practice conversations.

In addition to the textbook, tutors introduce actual audio, video and reading materials, such as extracts from Russian films, television and radio programs, and newspapers, so that students can learn about and discuss news and current affairs.